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1. Oxford Dictionary

   return

   • IPA[rɪˈtəːn]

   英式

   • v.
     come or go back to a place or person；go back to (a particular situation)
   • n.
     an act of coming or going back to a place or activity；an act of going back to an earlier state or situation

   • verb: return, 3rd person present: returns, gerund or present participle: returning, past tense: returned, past participle: returned

   • noun: return, plural noun: returns

2. • 釋義
   • 片語

   v.

   動詞

   • 1. come or go back to a place or person he returned to America in the late autumn 同義詞 go back, come back, get back, arrive back, arrive home, ... 更多come home, come again反義詞 depart, set out
   • ▪ go back to (a particular situation) I'll be glad when things return to normal
   • ▪ divert one's attention back to he returned to his newspaper
   • ▪ (especially of a feeling) reoccur after a period of absence her appetite had returned 同義詞 happen again, recur, reoccur, occur again, be repeated, ... 更多repeat (itself), come round (again), reappear, appear again, flare up, rarerecrudesce反義詞 disappear
   • ▪ play the last nine holes in a round of eighteen holes McAllister went out in 43 and returned in 32
   • 2. give, put, or send (something) back to a place or person complete the application form and return it to this address 同義詞 give back, send back, hand back, take back, carry back, ... 更多pay back, repay, remit, restore, put back, replace, reinstate, reinstall反義詞 keep, throw away
   • ▪ feel, say, or do (the same feeling, action, etc.) in response she returned his kiss 同義詞 reciprocate, requite, feel/give in return, repay, send/give in response, ... 更多give back, match, equal, wish someone the same反義詞 ignore
   • ▪ (in tennis and other sports) hit or send (the ball) back to an opponent the aim is to make the other side unable to return the ball 同義詞 hit back, send back, throw back反義詞 miss
   • ▪ intercept (a pass, kick, or fumble by the opposing team) and run upfield with the ball they had six passes intercepted—five were returned for touchdowns
   • ▪ (of a judge or jury) state or present (a decision or verdict) in response to a formal request the jury returned the unanimous guilty verdict 同義詞 deliver, bring in, hand down, render, submit, ... 更多announce, pronounce, proclaim
   • ▪ lead (a card, especially one of a suit led earlier by one's partner) after taking a trick he returned a Diamond won by his partner who now played the 10 of Spades
   • 3. yield or make (a profit) the company returned a profit of £4.3 million 同義詞 yield, bring in, earn, make, realize, ... 更多secure, net, gross, clear, pay out, fetch, pocket
   • 4. (of an electorate) elect (a person or party) to office the city of Glasgow returned eleven Labour MPs 同義詞 elect, vote in, put in power, choose, opt for, ... 更多select, pick, adopt
   • 5. continue (a wall) in a changed direction, especially at right angles.

   n.

   名詞

   • 1. an act of coming or going back to a place or activity he celebrated his safe return from the war a return flight 同義詞 homecoming, travel back反義詞 departure
   • ▪ an act of going back to an earlier state or situation the designer advocated a return to elegance 同義詞 recurrence, reoccurrence, repeat, rerun, repetition, ... 更多reappearance, flare-up, revival, rebirth, renaissance, resurrection, reawakening, re-emergence, resurgence, rarerecrudescence, renascence反義詞 disappearance
   • ▪ the action of returning something the tape is ready to despatch to you on return of the documents 同義詞 giving back, handing back, replacement, restoration, reinstatement, ... 更多reinstallation, restitution, rarereinstalment
   • ▪ (in tennis and other sports) a stroke played in response to a serve or other stroke by one's opponent.
   • ▪ a thing which has been given or sent back, especially an unwanted ticket for a sporting event or play it might be worth checking with the box office for returns 同義詞 returned item, unsold item, unwanted item/ticket, reject, exchange
   • ▪ British a ticket which allows someone to travel to a place and back again a return ticket to the airport 同義詞 return ticket/fare, round trip ticket/fare反義詞 single
   • ▪ an electrical conductor bringing a current back to its source.
   • ▪ a second contest between the same opponents he scored his first Test try in the return at Avignon
   • 2. a profit from an investment product areas are being developed to produce maximum returns 同義詞 yield, profit, returns, gain, income, ... 更多revenue, interest, dividend, percentage, informalbunce
   • ▪ a good rate of return.
   • 3. an official report or statement submitted in response to a formal demand census returns 同義詞 statement, report, submission, account, paper, ... 更多record, file, dossier, write-up, data, information, log, journal, diary, register, summary, document, form
   • ▪ a returning officer's announcement of an election result election returns showed his candidate had lost by 304 votes
   • ▪ an endorsement or report by a court officer or sheriff on a writ.
   • 4. election to office I campaigned for the return of forty-four MPs
   • 5. a mechanism or key on a typewriter that returns the carriage to a fixed position at the start of a new line.
   • ▪ a key pressed on a computer keyboard to simulate a carriage return in a word-processing program, or to indicate the end of a command or data string.
   • 6. a part receding from the line of the front, for example the side of a house or of a window opening.

   片語

   • by return of post
   • in return
   • many happy returns
   • return thanks